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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl08
I traveled to Europe mid May, 2019, on a 17 day whirlwind vacay. Last two days before flying home were spent in London and that's when I got a really bad sore throat. While boarding the plane, I realized by lungs hurt every time I took a breath. Coughing, shaking uncontrollably and burning up with fever, the flight was unbearable. I spent the whole 12 hrs. coughing into my tall boyfriends armpit. Got home at midnight, took two Tylenol and went to bed. Next morning went to Urgent Care. Had temp of 103.4 and was Diagnosed with double pneumonia. I NEVER NEVER get fevers when I'm sick. Antibiotics had to be changed twice, and after 3 GP appts, I thought I was getting better. After two weeks I went back to work. That only lasted a day. I was out of work for another two weeks. Extremely tired, bad headaches, short of breath, pain with every breath. I finally saw a pulmonologist after a month out of work. She put me on Prednisone 40 mg. X 7 days which really changed the course of the illness for me. I have never been so sick. I am convinced now that what I suffered from then was Covid-19. Please don't blast me with disclaimers as I am only sharing my feelings, my opinion about my illness in June. I'm not sure, and will only probably know for sure if I were to get tested for antibodies. Any thoughts?
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"There Is zero probability [SARS-CoV-2] was circulating in fall 2019,” tweeted Trevor Bedford, a computational biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who has been tracking SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code as it has spread. Allison Black, a genomic epidemiologist working in Bedford’s lab, says this is apparent from researchers’ data. As the virus spreads, it also mutates, much like the way words change in a game of Telephone. By sequencing the virus’s genome from different individual samples, researchers can track strains of the coronavirus back to its origins.
Richard Neher, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, told the Scientist that Nextstrain researchers’ work has tracked the virus back to a single source “somewhere between mid-November and early December,” which then spread in China. The earliest cases in the U.S. appeared in January 2020, according to Nextstrain’s sequencing work.
You did not get COVID-19 in the fall of 2019.